Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
From the record
“The Stockton Jail, in Stockton, Utah, is an historic jail that was built in 1902, after Stockton was incorporated in 1901. The jail was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1985.”
Wikipedia article Stockton Jail, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 29 National Register listings published here for Tooele County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.85000965- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
135 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Stockton Jail
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,348 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
54
Natural
40
Power generation/transmission/distribution
10
Equipment and vehicle use
9
Debris and open burning
6
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
Recreation and ceremony
4
Arson/incendiarism
4
Firearms and explosives use
3
Fireworks
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
47 workings within 5 miles of Stockton Jail: 35 past producers, 7 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown.
7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Silver, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Stockton, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
The Tooele County emergency manager reported a debris flow from the Jacob City Fire burn scar on county roads near Soldier Creek. Utah Department of Transportation officials also reported mud and rock across state Route 36 following the Flash Flood Warning.
Significant flow off of the Jacob City burn scar into Soldier Canyon and Soldier Creek. The road going up Soldier Canyon was closed. SR-36 was closed south of Stockton due to debris and flood waters starting to top the culvert on to SR-36.
A strong thunderstorm moved through the Tooele Valley, producing severe winds. Recorded wind gusts included 65 mph at South Mountain and the Great Salt Lake Marina, 62 mph at the Lake Point at I-80 sensor, and 59 mph at the Tooele City and Stockton Bar sensors.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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